The Holy Nights

A series of zoom meetings for all who would like to celebrate the Holy Nights together

All are welcome to join us and enter into the spiritual significance of this festival of reflection and renewal as we make our way from 2024 to 2025 through the Holy Nights. Do share this with your friends!

No charge, no booked needed. Donations gratefully received Paypal (suejoanpeat@gmail.com) or transfer to a Nationwide account held by Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776

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Friday 27 December 7pm ~ Your life as a gift of God. The daily review and the six virtues. With Christopher Marcus
The gift of our life is our personal teaching. Looking back and learning from it is a necessity if our life is not to become a waste. Practicing the 6 virtues is the most confronting and visceral way of reading the script of our biography. The sun of our high Self lightens our path with love.

Saturday 28 December 7pm ~ The Alchemy of Christmas. With Howard Smith
How is the spiritual reality of this Winter festival mirrored in alchemical processes? We will explore Steiner's remarkable lecture from "The Four Seasons and the Archangels" (Given on 6th October 1923 in Dornach. GA229).

Sunday 29 December 7pm ~ From the Mood of the Holy Night to Awakened Power of Thought. A Shared Contemplation of the Calendar of the Soul  (Verses 38 and 39). With Marguerite and Doug Miller
The Calendar of the Soul is a group of 52 verses for meditation that Rudolf Steiner gave to humanity in the spring of 1912. Unlike the more familiar Gregorian calendar that marks the start of the year on January first, the Calendar of the Soul begins its yearly journey at Easter. Over the cycle of each year the Calendar can be experienced as a supportive companion on the path to self-knowledge through an on-going conversation between the individual human soul and the cosmos.

Monday 30 December 7pm ~ The Paradise Play. A one man performance by Geoff Norris
The Paradise Play portrays the spiritual forces working in the stories of creation and ‘the fall’ and prepares us to celebrate Christmas. It is the first of the Oberufer plays, which were collected by Karl Julius Schroer, one of Rudolf Steiner’s teachers. They were passed on by oral tradition from a community living on the island of Oberufer on the Danube. These plays represent a unique survival of the medieval mystery play tradition and form a vibrant part of the life of many Steiner Waldorf schools.

Thursday 2 January 7pm ~ The Other Wise Man. Read by Geoff Norris
“The Other Wise Man” by Henry Van Dyke is the story of Artaban, from Persia. A set of circumstances meant that it his plans to join the three wise men on their trip to meet the baby Jesus were thwarted. The story unfolds as he discovers that what really matters are his acts of kindness and generosity to those he meets, which lead him (and us) to recognise the Christ in the other.

Friday 3 January 7pm ~  Loves and Silences - Poetry Evening with Iaia Chiesa
Iaia will read us a selection of her poetry, focusing on the two essentials behind her poems. Paul Klee spoke about his painting as a way of “walking the line”. Iaia,‘walks the word’. She was born in North Italy, exposed from the beginning to the mountains air and  art in all its forms. She moved to London over forty years ago to learn the English language and fell in love with it. 

Saturday 4 January 7pm ~ Inspiration in the Arts Tom Hart-Shea
Inspiration and the arts. Creative people may not consciously put in to their own works what I and others may find and appreciate in their work. "The spirit blows where it listeth...."John 3:8

Monday 6 January 7pm ~ Kahil Gibran  Kahlil Gibran, a seeker of the universal Christened human being.With  Peter Van Breda
The Prophet originally published in 1923 is the second most read and owned book after Shakespeare in the world. It is translated into dozens of languages and is appreciated in diverse cultures and religious faiths. He has been able to build bridges and actually break down walls through his universal message of goodwill and wisdom. In a very real way he is an important guide for our times.

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